The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday (March 10, 2026) orally observed that it would be better to defer to Parliament’s wisdom to bring a Uniform Civil Code rather than judicially strike down the Shariat Application Act, 1937 on the ground of discrimination for giving Muslim women a smaller share of family inheritance compared with their male counterparts.
The 1937 law established Islamic law for inheritance among Indian Muslims, providing widows with children a one-eighth share, or a further reduced one-fourth share if they do not have children,
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